Physical Multi-Crew is a great idea, if only it was usable...

CMDR James Northstar

CMDR James Northstar
Viajero said:
It does help a lot when implemented properly though, and there are are enough testimonials in there that show it. Port forwarding has helped for eons to players in many other peer to peer based games, not just Elite. Having said that it is important to remind that there will always be exceptions and there are certain home or private network setups that have limitations such as cgnat etc.

As for what can FDEV do, well, the UPnP protocol that peer to peer architecture is based on is inherently unreliable (not just for Elite), not much FDEV can do there except completely change and revamp the whole networking architecture for Elite. The main mitigation for most of those peer to peer games happens to be port forwarding.
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Oh I agree. There's not a whole lot they can do to improve the reliability of UPnP overall. But there are a lot of things they could do to improve the multiplayer experience when it fails.

The biggest pain point is being unable to rejoin a session once it's lost, and the associated mission failure that takes place when that occurs.

If they let us do that, and let us revive our teammates with medpacks, that would resolve about 90% of the current pain that is felt in multiplayer.
 

CMDR Lars

CMDR Lars
CMDR James Northstar said:
Oh I agree. There's not a whole lot they can do to improve the reliability of UPnP overall. But there are a lot of things they could do to improve the multiplayer experience when it fails.

The biggest pain point is being unable to rejoin a session once it's lost, and the associated mission failure that takes place when that occurs.

If they let us do that, and let us revive our teammates with medpacks, that would resolve about 90% of the current pain that is felt in multiplayer.
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This, exactly this! The main issue are not disconnections (even if they improved the networking layer in the game, one can still have a crappy connection at home) but the terrible penalties and time sinks that come with those disconnections.
 

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is there an issue on issue tracker for this , if we could get physical multi crew to work like the OP described , respawning back at the ship that you were just on , we could actually have a proper crew on ships , right now every other jump I lose my crew members , very annoying , would be great to vote on this so frontier can look at it
 
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